Ethics and moral philosophy

From sex and music to religion and politics, a history of irrationality and the ways in which it has always been with us-and always will beIn this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump, Justin Smith argues that irrationality makes up the greater part of human life and history.

Originally published in 1968.

While the history of philosophy has traditionally given scant attention to food and the ethics of eating, in the last few decades the subject of food ethics has emerged as a major topic, encompassing a wide array of issues, including labor justice, public health, social inequity, animal rights and environmental ethics.

For Aristotle, excellence is not an act but a habit, and Hume regards habit as 'the great guide of life'.

Our political spheres are riven with micro-targeted political advertising that degrades the possibilities and incentive for shared, respectful debate.

Kein freier Wille?

This book explores Edith Stein's phenomenology of the state.

Toleration matters to us all.

According to noncognitivists, when we say that stealing is wrong, what we are doing is more like venting our feelings about stealing or encouraging one another not to steal, than like stating facts about morality.

This book marks the 75th anniversary of the 1948 Hostage Case in which a US military tribunal in Nuremberg acquitted General Lothar Rendulic of devastating Northern Norway on account of his honest factual error.

First Published in 2004.

First published in 1997, this title is a sequel to Dr Noel Curran's first book The Logical Universe: The Real Universe (published by Ashgate under the Avebury imprint, 1994).

This book analyzes the concept of military necessity and just war thinking and argues that it should be seen as a vital moral principle for leaders.

Moderne Gesellschaften sind Krisengesellschaften: Universelle Werte sind erodiert, eine allgemeingültige Moral scheint für immer der Vergangenheit anzugehören.

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine is a comprehensive guide to topics in the fields of epistemology and metaphysics of medicine.

Widespread moral disagreement raises ethical, epistemological, political, and metaethical questions.

Dr Caroline Whitbeck offers a real-world, problem-centered approach to engineering ethics, using a rich collection of open-ended case studies.

Will meat eaters get into heaven?

Embryonic stem cell research holds unique promise for developing therapies for currently incurable diseases and conditions, and for important biomedical research.

We live in a world that has become a resource, a world conditioned by the progressive domination of a monetary scale applied across the board.

The rise of the phenomenon of virtue ethics in recent years has increased at a rapid pace.

The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth is about the decisions people make that shape the built environment, from the everyday concerns of homeowners and commuters to grand gestures of national policy.

Das Wort "Gen" wurde 1909 geprägt.

This book seeks to clarify and demonstrate the incalculable and injurious influence that progressive education has had and is having upon preaching, thinking Christianly, and the local church.

That we owe duties to others is a commonplace, the subject of countless philosophical treatises and monographs.

Why "e;aporophobia"e;-rejection of the poor-is one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight itIn this revelatory book, acclaimed political philosopher Adela Cortina makes an unprecedented assertion: the biggest problem facing the world today is the rejection of poor people.

This book addresses two questions that are highly relevant for epistemology and for society: What is ignorance and how should we rationally deal with it?

Anthony Celano''s study explores how medieval authors recast Aristotle''s Nicomachean Ethics according to their own moral ideals.

Albert Schweitzer maintained that the idea of "e;Reverence for Life"e; came upon him on the Ogowe River as an "e;unexpected discovery, like a revelation in the midst of intense thought.

Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues.

In the ten years of the Cultural Revolution, political persecutions, violation of rights, deprivation of freedom, violence and brutality were daily occurrences.

Why should any society take the decision to devote scarce resources, as a matter of public policy, to preserving natural objects?

Boldly reconfigures Walden for contemporary ethics and politics by recovering Thoreau''s theological vision of environmental justice.

In this book Linda Zagzebski presents an original moral theory based on direct reference to exemplars of goodness, modeled on the Putnam-Kripke theory which revolutionized semantics in the seventies.

Faking Nature explores the arguments surrounding the concept of ecological restoration.

In the 21st century, environmental harm is an ever-present reality of our globalised world.

Punishment, like all complex human institutions, tends to change as ways of thinking go in and out of fashion.

Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children's rights.

This book is dedicated to the research of the "e;pleasure phenomenon"e; as the most important factor in individual and socio-cultural development.

Science is the most reliable means available for understanding the world around us and our place in it.

This casebook argues that corporate sustainability agendas should look beyond stakeholder demands and desires, towards strategic opportunities to achieve social and commercial benefits simultaneously.

This provocative and original book challenges the commonplace that contemporary international interactions are best understood as struggles for power.

Offers a new theory of property and distributive justice derived from Talmudic law, illustrated by a case study involving the sale of organs for transplant.

This book examines the transformation of the traditional understanding of love by four key Enlightenment thinkers - Hume, Adam Smith, Rousseau and Kant.

Peace and War: Historical, Philosophical, and Anthropological Perspectives is an accessible, higher-level critical discussion of philosophical commentaries on the nature of peace and war.

Recent social developments, such as demographic change, skill shortages and new medical technologies, have necessitated a transition in the traditional roles of health-care professions.

»In diesem Buch wird der Versuch unternommen, die Rechtslehre und Politik auf ein festes wissenschaftliches Fundament zu stellen.

This monograph analyzes Nicholas Rescher's system of pragmatic idealism.